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  1. jad
    As someone who lives in both of those wonderful states, I can assure you you are dead wrong.
  2. jad
    Don't you think that all the time this is taking suggests that Manfred is finding evidence for what pretty much every baseball fan and player knew all along? that sign-stealing is prevalent all through the league, and the Astros were only distinguished by (1) their sophistication (computer geeks decoding signs--which probably aren't thatt complex in the first place, given the mental capacities of pitchers and catchers), and (2) the crudeness of the execution. What he is also finding, unless he has blinders, is that all players KNEW sign-stealing was going on, as evidenced by the many many attempts to overcome it (remember the constant mound-visits of two years ago?) The shock and outrage expressed by some is ludicrous.
  3. jad
    Nor, alas, well beyond that as well.
  4. jad
    Horrible. I guess maybe baseball isn't the most important thing in life after all.
  5. jad
    Ha ha! As you well know, Ogunquit and K'port ain't Maine!
  6. jad
    You saw two people shooting up? And conclude from that that "all" homeless people are high? People use drugs--even people with houses, even people (scandalously enough) who post on the internet (not that anyone on this board does, of course)--and the problem is as bad in, say, Maine as it is in CA.
  7. jad
    The farm's fine! ... at least, now that they have the option of sending Verdugo down there to hit next to Castillo. Of course, that won't help the Seadogs much, which is my major concern. But maybe putting together a package of Sale and Boggaerts could return a good AA reliever.
  8. jad
    Yeah, it really sucks that rich people have to pay taxes. Taxes, as L. Helmsley famously reminds us, are for "little people."
  9. jad
    It must be from all that time trying to hold the camera steady.
  10. jad
    Oh please. this makes it sound as if Mookie traded himself. He didn't. And so far, the evidence we have is that the ones who were most concerned about money were JH and Bloom. Not blaming them, really. Bloom did what he was hired to do. But when you hand over a business decision to a bean-counter, you can expect beans. The one thing we can be sure never happened was a directive to Bloom to keep Boston's great relationship with its fan base intact.
  11. jad
    I think you and I have different views of what constitutes (or can be excused as being) a "dumb decision"! I'm sure we both made plenty of those. I'm also pretty sure neither of us was ever in a room, drunk or passed out, where an underage kid was being beaten up then later sexually assaulted by our buddies. Another remarkable and jaw-dropping detail in this story is the way Dodger "fixers" determined that the way to handle it was to invite the girl to dinner with the players involved.
  12. jad
    Odd, but even when I saw it happen, I always assumed he was just spouting off yet another "it's all about the team" sports cliche: 'Don't look at me; when you throw at any guy on the team, you have to answer to the team.' I was actually surprised that anyone (i.e., 'everyone'!) took it as they did. DId any of his team-mates accuse him of that? (I don't think they did, but I could be wrong.) And did DP ever say anything about it?
  13. jad
    You mean me? Or articles like this? https://www.lowellsun.com/2020/02/09/editorial-dispatch-answers-needed-from-jersey-street/ And you know what? There are even people (those 'one guys'!) who would tarnish Kobe's legacy by pointing out that he admitted, in writing, to raping a woman in Denver. So I don't get it. In my view, you and other apologists should either state outright that you do not believe these reports (that's fine, but you haven't done that yet); or simply state outright that rape isn't a problem for you, and you're fine associating with such people or cheering them on. I mean, who among us hasn't invited a 17-year-old runaway to our hotel, got her drunk, then filmed our buddies having sex 'with' her once she's passed out? By the way, I don't give a crap about V's "image." I DO give a crap that he was involved in this.
  14. jad
    Yeah! Those greedy bastards! How DARE they ask for money that rightfully belongs to ownership??
  15. jad
    Right. It would be typical of ownership/management to argue that something abstract and undefinable is of more value than the mere material things they themselves are willing to take in its place.
  16. jad
    Yeah, Puig would not fit in with all those character guys like Verdugo.
  17. jad
    Yup. 100% agree.
  18. jad
    Really? And how many Mookie's have those farm systems produced in the past decade? How about the one named Mookie who until this last week was on thte RS roster?
  19. jad
    I'm rather surprised at some of the statements here. If you had asked a year ago "Who believes the Red Sox need to be more like Tampa Bay?" would there really be fans who would have said yes?? Do you think any of those would have been working in sales or marketing for either team?
  20. jad
    Ah, we survived Bobby Valentine. And a couple of other last place finishes that seemed to take place for no more rational reasons than the inexplicable WS victories. My summer will be fine. I just won't enjoy baseball as much w/o two of my favorite local figures: Cora and MB.
  21. jad
    Oh. Well now we know. (Or at least, since "winning" is undefined here, and all alternatives will be purely speculative, you can pride yourself in knowing that your argument/assertion is irrefutable.) But I realize there are different types of fans, and as a serious answer, yes, I would rather watch the best player in the world 162 times in 2020 than prospects, and as for 2021-22? we may all be dead. And if the Sox suck, then they suck: I didn't become more of a fan in 2003 than I was in the 50s. And I really don't care about fantasy-sports, dueling analytics, competitive GM-ing or John Henry's bank account. I do care about watching great players who have been with the team a long time. If they make the post-season? great--there will be more games. If not? so what?
  22. jad
    Oh. I didn't realize we had already had winning seasons in 2021 and 2022 and beyond. My bad. I also was unaware that we would have a losing season in 2020. I really need to pay more attention to analytics.
  23. jad
    Wow. Prospects! Holy cow, can't wait. Although I have to say, I'm worried: who knew there were so many fans who would prefer to watch prospects than the best player in the league? I better get my SeaDogs tickets quick, if, that is, there are any left.
  24. jad
    Right. And cinema is ruined because we pay actors too much. And no one in the USA supports big businesses because their CEOs make too much. No one follows pro football anymore. And no one buys Apple computers. Oh for the good ole days before unions and free agency ruined everything, back when owners thought about nothing other than the happiness of fans.
  25. jad
    The only positive thing about the argument that this is Bloom's brilliantly conceived scheme for getting Mookie to sign a long term contract with the RS is that no one, even its proponent, could possibly believe it. Just stop.
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